[workflowsauce]

> Something I did not read in this essay is how he grew closer to anyone (in fact, I read the opposite). No path out of this valley involves traveling alone.

I think he needs to get closer to himself. I think he's on the right track.

[madrox]

I've found that you don't see yourself without people around you to hold up a mirror

[o1o1o1]

Exactly this. Also, it is difficult to find those people when you're already rich and unemployed because most of us form these kind of meaningful relationships in school, at work etc.